Help us help the City to fulfill the promise of a complete bike network
Hooray! On June 26, 2009, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) voted to adopt the 2009 San Francisco Bicycle Plan and gave the green light to 45 Bike Network Improvement Projects.
The Bicycle Plan is a 5-year master plan and ambitious roadmap meant to boost an already-impressive transportation mode to new heights of safety and convenience. The Bike Plan outlines 60 near-term improvements to the Citywide Bike Network, as well as long-term opportunities for bike route upgrades.
The City has released a list of bike projects to be implemented within the first year after the injunction is lifted. The actual dates and order depend on the Judge's decision to lift the injunction, but these first-year projects include:
- Beale Street southbound bicycle lane,Bryant Street to Folsom Street (Project 2-5)
- Howard Street westbound bicycle lane at 9th Street (Project 2-8)
- Scott Street, northbound left turn bicycle lane, Fell Street to Oak Street (Project 3-5)
- Illinois Street bicycle lanes from 16th Street to Cargo Way (Project 4-3)
- Mississippi Street bicycle lanes, 16th Street to Mariposa Street (Project 4-5)
- Kansas Street bicycle lanes, 23rd Street to 26th Street (Project 5-8)
- Clipper Street bicycle lanes from Douglass Street to Portola Drive (Project 6-2)
- Laguna Honda Boulevard bicycle lanes from Clarendon to Woodside Avenue, and from Portola Drive to Woodside Avenue (Projects 6-3 and 6-4)
- Portola Drive Bicycle Lanes, from Corbett Avenue to O'Shaughnessy Boulevard (Project 6-5)
- 7th Avenue bicycle lanes and sharrows from Lawton Street to Lincoln Way (Project 7-2)
- Kirkham Street bicycle lanes, 6th Avenue to The Great Highway (with sharrows only between 18th and 20th Avenues) (Project 7-5)
- John F. Kennedy Drive bicycle lanes, Kezar Drive to Transverse Drive (Project 7-4)
- North Point Street bicycle lanes, The Embarcadero to Van Ness Avenue (Project 1-3)
- Fremont Street southbound bicycle lane, Folsom Street to Harrison Street (Project 2-7)
- Otis Street westbound bicycle lane, Gough Street to South Van Ness Avenue (Project 2-15)
- Townsend Street bicycle lanes, 8th Street to The Embarcadero (Project 2-16)
- Alemany Boulevard bicycle lanes, Bayshore Boulevard to Rousseau Street (Project 5-2)
- Ocean Avenue bicycle lanes, Alemany Boulevard to Lee Avenue (Project 5-9)
- Potrero Avenue and Bayshore Boulevard bicycle lanes, 25th Street to Cesar Chavez Street (Project 5-11)
- Claremont Boulevard bicycle lanes, Dewey Boulevard to Portola Drive (Project 6-1)
- Sloat Boulevard bicycle lanes, The Great Highway to Skyline Boulevard (Project 8-5)
See our Bike Plan page for more on what's next...
A Complete Bike Network for a Bike-Friendly San Francisco
We're dedicated to completing the Citywide Bike Network because it's the best way to help more people feel comfortable about everyday bicycling in the city. And it's not just the SFBC who says that, it's official: the San Francisco City Charter orders the City (by way of the Municipal Transportation Agency) to develop a safe, interconnected bicycle circulation network, and the Transit First part of the city charter declares that bicycling shall be promoted by encouraging safe streets for riding, convenient access to transit, bicycle lanes, and secure bicycle parking.
We need your help — sign up to help get the Citywide Bike Network built — choose a project or two or three and get activated!
A Complete Bike Network for a Livable San Francisco
The SFBC's #1 goal is the creation of the citywide bicycle network. Every neighborhood will be accessible on streets with bike lanes, separate bike paths, or traffic-calmed, slow-speed streets where bikes and cars can safely share space. Everyone from the age of 8 to 80 will feel safe bicycling to school, work, shopping, anywhere at all.
When the citywide bicycle network is complete, the whole city benefits:
Safer Streets:
Studies show that streets with bicycle lanes are more than twice as safe for bicyclists as streets without bike lanes. When the bike lanes were installed on Valencia Street, pedestrian injuries dropped 15%.
More Choices for Mobility:
Most people — even out-of-shape people — can make a five-mile bike trip, which takes you to most places in the city. Since such a trip only takes about 30 minutes, it's faster than Muni and about equal to driving and parking a car. It's also totally reliable: you'll never get stuck in traffic or waste time looking for parking!
Less Congestion:
Not everyone can bike, but many more would with a safe Bike Network. Already, half of San Francisco's adults own bicycles, and most trips are just a couple miles, an easy bicycling distance.
Easier Parking:
Every traveler who arrives by bike leaves a parking space for someone who drives.
Benefits the Local Economy:
Bicyclists shop in local stores instead of suburban shopping malls, and without car costs they have more to spend.
Better Health:
A safe Bike Network means you can get the benefits of exercise while going about your daily business.
If the city builds the Bike Network, we know that the number of people biking for transportation in San Francisco will more than double to 60,000 in the next five years. The number of bicyclists using streets with bike lanes always increases when a bike lane is striped:
300% increase in bicyclists on Howard Street
144% increase in bicyclists on Valencia Street
41% increase on Polk Street
67% increase on Arguello Boulevard
Please join the Bicycle Coalition so we can contact you and make you a part of our campaign to complete the bike network. We need members in every neighborhood to be sure to win.
